282 FROM BUKOREST, 
CHAP. Red Toiver; for it has been so denominated, in 
III. p 1 • n 
V ■ -y _/ consequence of the rums of a very massive old 
red toiver, and of a wall extending over part of 
the mountain which is above the Pass, two 
hours beyond the Lazaret. In this part of our 
route, we met some of the Ambassador's car- 
visibie riaofes returning to Bukorest. A conspicuous 
change in " . . 
the man- cliangc was already manifested in the manners 
ners of the n ^ • ^ ^ • 
People. of the inhabitants, by the appearance oi ivomen 
employed as men in agricultural labour ; a 
custom common in all parts of Germany. As 
our baggage underwent an examination at the 
Lazaret, two hours from Kinnin, we halted for 
the night, and slept in the Director's house. 
The host and his family were Germans; and wt. 
were struck by the general appearance of clean- 
liness, not only in this house, but everywhere 
along the route where there were any German, 
inhabitants. Yet, to shew how different our ideas 
are of the same people under different circum- 
stances, the author confesses he once consi- 
dered the Germans in a far different light. An 
Englishman, who is suddenly removed from 
the cleanly habits of his own country into the 
interior of Germany, infallibly complains of the 
boorish manners^ and the dirt of the inhabitants ; 
but, after long travelling in Turkey, the contrast 
offered upon entering Transylvania, (where little 
